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J' V.! I n a Illi: (i V,1 TTK-T1MKS, HKITM I!. OUI, Till l'.SlUV. AIMIIl. K, WHO. THE GAZETTE-TIMES VsTvh J .. 1SJ T Hrprr TirrR, KtUMlstlfKl N'nvfnfr K 1SVT Con.nl .late.1 February 15, 1 1 1. PuMUrM .vry Thursday morninjr by iwtfr nail pmrr Crawford anl entr.1 t Ih roptoflc ftt Hepp n.r. Or.Kon, .ooni-elas matter. ADURTIMVli R4TF GIVIH OH srnscRirTios rates: tT. Y.ar B.x Months Thr M.inlha Single Copies 100 .71 .01 IllRROW COVKTT OFFICIAL PAPER Who Will Teach Your Boys and Girls Next Year? A republican form of government is founded upon the principle that all of the people are intelligent. Schools are established to educate the children of all the people so that they may earn- on the government efficiently. That the schools may perform this function as they should it is absolutely necessary that the teaching staff be kept up to the high est possible standard. A dangerous crisis faces the schools at the present time. Many of our teachers are securing various kinds of work for the summer at salaries of a $100.00 per month or more. At the end of the summer vaction a number of these teachers will glance at the $75-$90 salary out there in the country school dis trict with all the inconveniences of boarding in the country and decide to stay with their more lucrative po sition. This will help to cause a greater shortage of teachers. Therefore, it behooves us to sup port the Elementary Educational Bill which will provide additional funds for every public school in the state. The Civic Club through its sanita tion committee with which the Parent-Teachers association is cooper ating, is carrying on a work that should have the support of every man. woman and child in the city. Clean streets and side walks is a forerunner to a town beautiful. May the good work continue. One of the conditions of the peace treaty was that the former kaiser and his son, the. ex-crown prince, along with a thousand other viola tors of the rules of warfare, should be turned over to an allied commis sion for trial. Holland refuses to deliver the former emperor over to the allies and Germany is steadfast in her refusal to bring the high-ups to justice, saying that it would cause a revolution in the fatherland and bring about such a rotten economic condition that they would be unable to pay the indemnity due the allies. Anyway you look at it you can see the fox has lost none of its former cunning. Hunger even unto starvation is something unknown to people of America. In our fullness of stom ach we should not forget that there is a race of people approaching ex termination, through hunger, torture and outright murder. Remember the Armenians. Morrow county has not yet raised her quota, but in all justice to the rest of the state as well as to suffering humanity, our quota should be raised. Let's get busy. Thrift. The one great element of success is embodied in that little word of six letters. All through the war the United States government preached the doctrine of thrift and it was adhered to by a large number of people, who put their savings into stamps. The government is still preaching thrift but the gospel seems now to fall upon unhearing ears. The country at large seems to have gone stark mad on an orgy of extravagance wasteful spending. The drunken sailor, in his palmiest days, had nothing on this spend-thrifty nation. But so"ber moments are coming. Statesmen are not pre dicting a revolution, but a reaction. Prices will drop. Economic condi tions will shine forth in their true light and it will take a steady hand to soothe the rocking boat. More production and less extravagance will save the day. The provident merchant never lets his supplies run too low. The Normal schools report the supply of teachers as constantly diminishing since 1916. Shall we wait till the crisis is upon usV Can teachers be trained in a day? What of the boys and girls who must get their instruc tion and their ideals of citizenship from poorly prepared and poorly paid teachers. Your boys and your gi'rs. Citizens, Awake!! The American Breeder says that $1500 is becoming a common price for a span of mules. This ought to make local horse and mule men sit up and take notice, for such inform ation coming from the American Breeder can be considered pretty authentic. No Bolshevism Wanted The Oregon Journal is indulging in something that sounds like propa ganda for the Non-Partisan League. It may not be intended as such, but it certainly has the ear marks, friends of the Journal fear it is get ting close to questionable company. The Non-Partisan League did not en joy a gooj war record. Its leader. Mr. Tow nicy, w as indicted by a fed eral grand jurv for disloval talk. There is sworn testimony of inflam matory and revolutionary talk by league organizers in the state of Washington during the war. There w as a grange meeting in Walla Wal la during which utterances of such radical character were made by a league advocate that the school board, backed up by representative farmers and businessmen ousted the meeting from the high school audit orium. So incensed were the citi zens of Walla Walla, a farming town that the organization could find no hall or church in which to continue its sessions. If this newspaper understands the Non Partisan League its purpose is bolshevism in the professed behalf of the fanner. It is a misguided move which no farmer can afford to sanction. Carried to its logical conclusion it would mean disposses sion of the farmer and confiscation of his property. The farmer of all men must beware of class rule. He will be the chief victim if bolshevism comes. If marketing conditions are to be improved the remedy lies not in the methods of Townley or Trotsky or Lenin. Competition will provide the key." If grain buying is a profitable business, farmers may enter that business whenever they wish. Some of them are now .engaged in this business. If they wish to go into the milling business or the warehouse business they may do so. Some of them already have flour mills. The field is always open. If they want to enter the mercantile business there is nothing to prevent unless it be the fact that farming is usually more profitable. It is not fair to berate business men because the problems of the farmer have not all been solved. We all have unsolved problems to face. It is dangerous to incite pre judice and to preach class govern ment. It might be possible with sufficient effort to get the state drunk on this stuff but sooner or la ter Oregon would wake up with a headache. Surely the Journal with its great record of service, is not going to champion the Non Partisan League. Let it be hoped its purpose is an ex pose of the league and not support. Pendleton East Oregonian. A mighty nifty new hotel we are going to have, with all outside rooms and a phone in thirty of them. The weary traveling man can look for ward to his regular visits in Hepp- ner with pleasure in the future. Our country friends will have a place at which to stop and our own townspeople will have an institu tion in which they may tke a great deal of pride. Slats' Diary Friday Teacher was grouchy to day she sed she had told me all she krtowed & I was still as ignorant as a elefant. Done a Kind ack for a old lady . wich takes' in wash ings & pitchei shows. carried her baskit up a hill. & she Give me a nikkel. It all ways pays 2 be kind. Saturday A tuth was acheing wich wassent the same I had pulled. Pa tuk me down 2 the dentists shop & got me a new pare of shoes 2 ware. Sunday after Sunday skool pa & ma had a nother Fuss. Pa sed he was going 2 rite 2 a expert on famly trees so as 2 git his pedigree rote down on paper. MaM sed she thot his famly tree was full of nuts & Lemmons then they was a lot of trubbel. Et a cold dinner. & pa did 2. Monday felling Rotten. Dont know whether it is the flew or Im in love ma tellefoned the dr. Jake bought some birdseed with a nikkel & put it under a old hen he sed she wood hatch em out. If they stayed under her long enuff. Tuesday Ast pa why did they give dieing peepul a swaller of wis key & pa sed it was 2 leeve a good taste in there mouths. Wednesday met the new min ister of the church & he ast me where was the post off is & I told him & he sed for me 2 cum to his church & he wood show me the way 2 it 2 hevvin. Gess that's a pritty good bargen. Thursday Pa entered on his 8th bottel of spring Blood tonic, teecher ast Jake wot was the mane producks of Indy & he sed they was coffy & she sed wot 2 kinds of coffy do we Get frum their & Jake sed we got strong coffy & Week coffy from In dy. pa & me tuk a walk & saw a wummin with her dress wich reech ed 2 her shoe tops. Pritty neer. Pa sed that was funny. But he diddent Smile. J. E. acks like she mite be beginning 2 thaw agin. Sum girl. County Division Historv h:is shown that there are instances in the progress of this country where county division was the proper proceedure. There have .been other instances where one big 'county split made a loosing game for both the old county and its newei offspring. Where the country is sparsely settled and the land not ; highly productive, in the main, it would appear evident that the one I big county would stand a better i chance for existence than two small- ... er ones maintaining two separate governments. The case in point is that of Grant county. Grant is one of the larger counties of Oregon. Canyon City, which is the countv seat, is situated in the extreme southern part. Now the people of northern Grant are clamoring for a county by them selves, as we view it, their main con tention being that they are too far removed from the seat of govern ment, that poor roads make getting to the county seat a tedious journey and that anyway, the county is too large as it is and should be divided. Hence a move has started which results in a county division measure on the ballot. While it is no concern of ours, anymore than we are great ly interested in the welfare and hap piness of our sister county on the south, the situation presents some features which may not be altogether unlike an ultimate scrap for county division coming out of the north end of Morrow county and the west of Umatilla. In Grant county, the Blue Moun tain Eagle contends, that the new county would start off with a debt of $150,000, for there is already an authorized bond issue of $140,000 and in addition to this the cost of division would approximate $10,000. With this bad start the assessed val ue of taxable land would be less than $4,000,000 upon which will have to be raised at least $100,000 annually. As it is now, the assessed value of the property is nearly eight and one half million and the taxes raised are $160,000. The Eagle points out that this will not double the tax but will come so near it that somebody will do some squirming. Good highways from one end of the county to the other, making quick and easy transportation facilities and better com:"u:iiMtKUi with the present countv seat, v, ill be the sol ution for the people of the north end of Grant countv. believes the Eagle. A Duty of Citizenship Citizenship brings to all of us du ties as well as blessings, and it will not do any of us any harm if once in awhile we take stock of ourselves and balance our activities against our apathy in matters of public concern. Only in this way cm we measure up, as we should, each year a little near er to the standard of sound Ameri canism. We are going to talk very frankly on one subject for a few weeks and it will be a pleasure to receive from time to time expressions from our readers on what we have to say. Their thought will guide us. More over, it will disarm those who may be disposed to criticize us as sound ing a selfish note. Every person in this and every other community should give some thought to the suggestion that adver tising be established as a reguular and legitimate part of the govern ment functioning. Those who study the question of government adver tising will soon realize it to be the plain duty of every good citizen to play his little part in bringing its importance and necessity before the recognized authorities, because it is of first importance to the people. ; Let it be understood at the outset we are not advocating government j advertising with any thought of the small amount of revenue it might bring to this newspaper. The record of every country publisher who gave ! away hundreds of thousands of dol lars worth of space during the war without thought of fee or reward 'should be a sufficient refutation of such a thought. This newspaper : wants to see government advertising established because of the immeas urable benefit it can be to our farm ers, because it can be made to save thousands of lives every year and ! millions of dollars for the people, i The first thought the public should 'digest is this: Government is not ; something apart. Government is the ; will of the people. The funds of the government are supplied by the 1 people to be spent in the interest ' of the people. I iMA- In2000 Counties This Month The Forces of the Church of Christ Will Gather To Face the Facts IN 2000 counties in the United States the pastors and laymen of 30 great denominations will meet in conference this month. It is the kind of conference that generals hold before a critical engagement; that business men hold before entering a new market. A conference of judgment, not emotion; a clear-eyed facing of the facts. A Survey that Business Men Must Admire For more than a year hundreds of workers have been quietly engaged in making a scientific survey of the mission fields, and of America county by county. The facts developed are startling. No such picture of America's religious situation has ever before been drawn. On the basis of these surveys thirty Protestant de nominations are uniting in a Nation Wide Cooperative Campaign Each of the thirty denominations has its own "For ward Movement" organized and officered. The Interchurch World Movement is the clearing house for all of these. It is the agency which the churches have created to avoid duplication, to foster cooperation and make sure that every man and dollar render the utmost service possible. The month of April will be devoted to making the facts of the survey known to America; in the week of April 25th -May 2nd, will come a united simultaneous financial campaign. Whether You Are Inside the Church or Out To every man and every woman who loves his country, these 2000 county conferences are vitally important. For the facts developed by this great survey show vividly what forces are at work in America and what kind of a country this country is to be. See that the pastor of your church appoints delegates. Any pastor can tell you the con ference place and date. Or write direct to the Interchurch WOUtf) MOVEMENT 45 WEST 18th STREET, NEW YORK CITY The publication of this advertisement ia made poaaible through the cooperation of 30 denomination. Here We Are ! The Battery Electric Service Station Formerly in Rear of Heppner Garage is now in its new home in the Ashbaugh Building at the Corner Main and Center Streets YOU WILL FIND HERE BETTER FACILITIES FOR THE CARE AND REPAIR OF ANY MAKE OF STORAGE BATTERY. Also a Complete Line of New Batteries, Generators and Starter Motor Brushes and Parts. All Makes of Ignition and Distributor Contact Points and Parts, Magneto Repairs, Ignition Coils, Wire, and In Fact Anything You Want in the Automotive Electrical Line. Your Battery Inspected and Distilled Water Supplied FREE OF CHARGE. Drive in any time and try our Good Service Phone 83 ATTENTION GARAGE AND REPAIR MEN-Above is our phone number. When you want service call us. The Battery Electric Service Station J. W. FRITSCH "The Battery Man," Ow ner. Corner Main and Center Streets Heppner, Oregon Forty Dollars An Acre Forty Dollars an acre for the best wheat ranch in the heart of the Eight Mile farming district. Third of crop goes with sale. Small payment down and easy terms on balance. Also am offering an A-l Dairy and Stock Ranch of 1000 acres. INVESTIGATE! Arthur R. Crawford Licensed Real Estate Dealer Heppner, Oregon ejlllllIlllllltillllllllllllllIlilllllltllltlllMlllillllIlltllilllllllllllillllllllllllIlllllllllll1IillllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllflllllllIilllllllL: Tire Prices I Advance Gates Half-Sole Tires Cost One-Half as Much I Guaranteed Puncture Proof j Are 20 Per Cent Over-Size j Stephen M. Irwin EATES TyRLES I 5 REGISTERED U. S, PAT. 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